“Cold-eyed and driven, these poems carve away the fatty sentiments
around the Great Lake swimmers, those glamour girls of myth. With these
constantly surprising and multifarious narratives starring Marilyn Bell
and Shirley Campbell, two girls swallowing the ‘frigid knife of water’,
Tanis Rideout proves herself capable of just about anything.” — Carolyn Smart

"Poems that swim elegantly, that slide streamlined with every other
flowing thing—as if they themselves were another layer of fluid." — Gord Downie

For Ken Howe

"In The Civic-Mindedness of Trees, an acorn has a “beret tilted at the
exact subtle angle/and round face exquisitely featureless.” Play here is
serious business. In Ken Howe’s witty, thoughtful new book, trees are
points of reference, compositional elements, instigators of verbal
riffs, and splendid imaginative fields. Without being required to behave
like human beings, they show us, mostly by contrast, and with pleasing
complexity, something about what it is to be human." — Daisy Fried

For Chris Pannell

"Sub- and -urban both, Chris Pannell's poetry is as much emotional
cartography as verse, little maps of knowing place, and all the raw love
that comes with that kind of attention. A Nervous City looks beyond the
veneer and facades of modern urban sprawl to find the what's broken and
filthy, then examines it minutely, seeking beauty."
— George Murray